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That the Sen-SORS pronunciation used by Vulcans is because of Nimoys thick Boston Accent. He could not say sensors without the ORs or it came out like sansahs
"You say sabotage. I say Sahbahtahge." That's my deep cut
400 years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word "sabotage."
You say potato - I say vodka
It isn't just Vulcans, though, most of Starfleet calls them sen-SORS. My headcanon has always been that Spock was so influential to future science officers that they adopted his pronunciation and it spread from there.
Dac certainly, ah, thought highly of him.
Now I kinda want Vulcan to be Space Boston.
Pon-fah and all
That’s wicked illawgical, guy.
It is lahgical to suppahrt the Sox.
No wonder there's an entire Vulcan ship in Trek that's trained to play baseball.
I never knew Nimoy had a Boston accent
He was a cab driver in Boston before becoming an actor. One of his fares was a young senator JFK, and in conversation with him encouraged him to pursue what he wanted to do.
Good thing he never encountered the Cardassians.
Cah-dassians
Sudden random memory from my childhood: the sound test at the Boston planetarium used Nimoy saying "who put the bam in bam bam baram". One of the other characters in the sound test asks "how did we get Leonard Nimoy for this?" Another responds, "he was born here!"
That is a really neat fact! Thank you!
You mean like sense-OARS?
"Are you really making fown of me?"
Even DeForest got in on the game in VI.
Also, the etymology of “sensors” comes from using oars to push out to sense what wasn’t visible, hence sense-oars.
Edit: spelling
James Doohan (the actor who played Scotty) lost a finger in D-Day. Scotty, however, has all ten fingers. Doohan hid his hand sometimes and used a hand double other times, although there are a couple scenes where you can see his missing finger.
He also corresponded a woman who had suicidal thoughts and invited her to conventions. She eventually got an engineering degree and thanked Doohan for helping her out.
Edit: Doohan also praised Spielberg for not holding back on the violence and horror of Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan.
Similar thing happened to adorn. He met a dude who got off of drugs and partly thanked him for Worfs sense of honor and duty, as it was what inspired him to be better.
Wish it had inspired Worf to be a better dad.
Friendly fire too. A young soldier thought he was a German and opened up on him with a Bren gun. Hit him six times.
A BREEN gun?
And stupid teenage me asked to shake his hand when I met him at a trek con back in the 90s and didn't notice.
Transporter malfunction.
Where did the finger go? I shudder to imagine.
It’s on Risa, enjoying its best life.
Max Grodenchik (Rom) played minor league baseball and had such a hard time convincingly playing badly in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" that he had to resort to using his non-dominant hand.
Dr. Stephen Hawking is the only person in the entirety of Star Trek movies or TV to receive an on screen credit “as himself” (or herself).
Melinda Snodgrass, who wrote the TNG episode "Measure of a Man" was in a D&D group with other disgruntled lawyers who were aspiring writers in the 1980's before she got her big break. One of the other authors in her group who she would trade writing samples and critiques with was George R. R. Martin
Most of them are the same group who are responsible for writing for the Wild Card book series, which Snograss and Martin were the main editors for.
The books are very strange. I enjoyed the ones I read, but there are like 30 books and short stories, and I haven't read them all.
I was literally going to respond "she was probably part of the Wild Cards group".
Same as you, I read a bunch of them, but fell off at some point. I would like to read more, but now it's been years and I'm not sure where I was.
I really liked Croyd, I think, the guy who would sleep randomly and wake up basically a new person.
Animal rights activists were furious about the use of captive whales in Star Trek IV: The One with the Whales, but they were just RC animatronic models.
Leonard fucking Nimoy took humpback whales off of the endangered species list.
Couldn't have said it better myself XD
The Roddenberry's would invite Marina Sirtis to their place for Thanksgiving because she had no family in the USA. Marina would call Gene "dad" because he was married to her onscreen mum.
That’s really sweet, I didn’t know that.
Wait, Gene Roddenberry was married to Lwaxana Troi?
Slash Nurse Chapel slash Number One slash Computer Voice slash “previously on….and now, the conclusion,” yes.
I ST:V Spock says Marsh Melons because McCoy knew Spock would research camping so he changed the databank to Marsh Melons. Hence the smarmy grin and half laugh when Spock says Marsh Melons.
"I am preparing to toast a marshmelon."
One of the three ingredients necessary to create spores.
A small amount of James Doohan's ashes were smuggled aboard the international space station shortly after he died, and remain there to this day.
I'll be lucky if my ashes are used as kitty litter...
Supposedly Ira Behr was toying with the idea of making Kira and Dukat have a romance in early 6th season, but Nana Visitor shot it down saying there’s no way Kira would do such a thing.
Yeah, gross.
So they changed it to Kira's mother being a comfort woman during the war instead. The Cardassian/Nazi parallels in DS9 were already pretty strong, but having Dukat being the young German officer who falls for a Jewish servant is far too on the nose, imo. Like Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, which would have been fairly recent at the time.
I always thought it was based on the comfort women the Japanese took in Korea in WWII.
The sad thing is this has happened so many times that those aren't the only two possibilities.
Behr had a bunch of wonky ideas like that. As I recall, he considered having the finale conclude with making the entirety of Deep Space Nine the work of Benny Russell, implying that the entirety of not only DS9 but TNG and Voyager as well (who interacted with DS9) were merely stories written by a 1950s writer. That idea was thankfully rejected.
Jeri Ryan turned down her part several times. They kept coming back to her.
Kate Mulgrew had to watch her weight carefully. She was working such long hours she had a tendency to lose too much.
Lursa and B'Etor’s costumes were not augmented by prosthetics. That was them.
Kate Mulgrew gave up smoking during Scientific Method so some of her crankiness was real. 😀
There can be an argument made that Jeri Ryan accepting the role of Seven of Nine was indirectly responsible for Barack Obama becoming president.
Due to the long distance nature of their relationship she and her husband Jack Ryan ended up getting a divorce. Jack, a popular Illinois Republican, was running against Obama for a senate seat but during the campaign the details, weird sex club shenanigans and such, of their divorce became public during their custody battle and tanked his campaign. Leaving Obama to go up against a hastily selected not nearly as popular replacement candidate.
Now that is some cool trivia. Not Trek related but without Harry Belafonte Obama might not have been BORN, Belafonte was part of an organization that gave a grant to Obama's dad to study at the University of Hawaii in 1959.
They were real and they were spectacular. 😉🤣
Okona knows what’s up.
On TNG, so much light was reflected from the wall panels, the LCARS readouts and whatnot that the set dressers had to cover some of them up with black paper. You can see it in the background of some episodes on the bridge, especially in the first few seasons. I didn't know it until recently when it was pointed out to me
Here’s a fun video on YouTube that points out nearly every instance of not just that, but also floor marks and electrical cables and boom mikes and reflections of camera men who can be seen in episodes.
https://youtu.be/yzJqarYU5Io?si=XYb9Bx9gvl6Kca79
Black. Panels. Everywhere.
The sad part is that it didn't even get rid of all of the reflections.
I'm doing a TNG rewatch right now, and I noticed a camera and the operator in a reflection on the bridge during a dolly shot. I think it was in "Remember Me" when Beverly was alone.
Gotta remember no one would have seen this on a standard definition television when it was originally broadcast.
HD did no favours to TNG. It's also painfully obvious where the actor's skin meets their prosthetics.
Despite the heavy use of Runabouts we see in DS9, the only time we ever see the rear compartment of a runabout is in the TNG episode Timescape.
TNG even built that rear compartment so DS9 would then have it available if they ever wanted to use it.
Warp 9 (TNG) is 1,516 times the speed of light.
Which honestly makes warp 10 and it's weird transcendental salamander effect even weirder. It's such a bizarre THRESHOLD.
In the TNG warp scale, the numbers go up exponentially, so 10 becomes infinity at that scale.
Sha-Ka-Ree in Star Trek V is named after Sean Connery, because he was originally the choice to play “God.”
Jayla’s name in Star Trek Beyond came about because the character was written with Jennifer Lawrence — J-Law — in mind.
They used parts of the transporter from The Motion Picture in the transporters of TNG, which was then used in Voyager.
Voyagers engine room uses part of the engine room from TMP too.
And the corridors on VOY are redresses from TNG which are in turn heavier redresses from the TMP. Those corridors sat in the same spot from 1978 to 2001. The history is crazy.
It's especially noticeable in the Voyager sickbay as well. Even though the room has been very heavily redressed, it still sits in the same corridor design as the TNG one so it has the same overall configuration. The position of the main door, and the medical area/doctor's office/science lab flow of rooms is the same from TMP through to TNG and VOY.
I think that's part of what made 90s Trek so cheap too, they had decades of props and walls and other bits to draw from.
The floor transporter pads from TOS are the ceiling panels in the TNG transporter room.
Inversing the polarity increases the throughput of the Heisenberg compensators
I think they used the same big fresnel lenses as part of the transporter from TOS into Voyager. It was the same core set on Stage 9 from TMP to Voyager, with redresses for the different shows.